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Julie Taymor

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And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.


— Julie Taymor


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I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.


— Julie Taymor


#hero #honest #i #i am #quite

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.


— Julie Taymor


#being #had #i #meanings #never

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.


— Julie Taymor


#challenge #failing #i #interesting #really

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.


— Julie Taymor


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I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.


— Julie Taymor


#feel #film #four #going #i

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.


— Julie Taymor


#dangerous #express #fears #people #repressed

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.


— Julie Taymor


#back #between #does #fake #film

People will justify whatever for a good cause.


— Julie Taymor


#good #good cause #justify #people #whatever

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.


— Julie Taymor


#far #film #poetry #superior #theater






About Julie Taymor

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Did you know about Julie Taymor?

She went on to direct Wagner's The Flying Dutchman for the Los Angeles Opera in a co-production with the Houston Grand Opera. Taymor and her long-time partner Elliot Goldenthal were co-nominees in the Best Original Song category. A newly translated and abridged English version of the opera premiered at the Met in December 2006 and inaugurated a new series on PBS in 2010 entitled Great Performances at the Met as well as launched the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series of movie-theater transmissions.

She was the director of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark but left in March 2011 following artistic differences with the producers. She is widely known for directing the stage musical The Lion King for which Julie Taymor became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design.

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